Guardian writers turned up at Glastonbury expecting to review bands … but they ended up doing yoga with Jarvis Cocker, crying with strangers and calling underground Korean restaurants from a mystery phone box

From censored genitalia to the spoken word in Southend, here’s a look at the four shortlisted artists for the 2014 Turner prize, which is at Tate Britain from 30 September to 4 January 2015. The winner will be announced on 1 December

It is difficult to fathom what the British magazine photographer John Chaloner Woods was trying to illustrate with his picture of a young girl with a pageboy hairstyle eating a banana. What is certain is that it is most amusing

From 'secrets of the sphinx' magic shows to pharoah romance novels, Howard Carter's discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922 kicked off an Egypt craze in the 1920s and 30s. Now 21st-century visitors can walk like Egyptians at the Ashmolean's King Tut exhibition in Oxford until 2 November

James Lavelle's Meltdown begins at the Southbank Centre in London today, and alongside the music, there's a exhibition marking the 21st anniversary of his Mo'Wax label. Here are some of the highlights from Mo'Wax's artwork archive, as featured in Urban Archaeology